Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

Ryan Paugh , who was basically my intern when I met him , and now he's almost my boss and definitely my social-skills mentor , tells me that I am popular because I'm interesting but that I suck at self-promotion. (He After a year there, one of the senior partners approached me and asked if he could be my mentor. I asked why.

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MARCH 18, 2010

" So forget webinar. Her career advice appears in more than 200 newspapers. In a review of this blog, Business Week called Penelopes writing "poetic." The one from Ada, Ohio. 481 comments) Dont try to dodge the recession with grad school (436 comments) Bad career advice: Do what you love What generation are you part of, really?

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

I am looking for solutions. Ryan Paugh , our community manager, calls me to say that he thinks I need to start having someone look at what I post in the group before I post it. I manage a small hotel and won't bother you. I am not crying, though. I think I am past that. You don't just need a vacation; you deserve one.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Mindfulness makes you more productive Posted to: Productivity | Time management February 22nd, 2010 Del.icio.us EEG neurofeedback training is the best solution because it trains the brain out of that pattern. Is this your first time here?

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

Management consultant Frans Johansson found that in the case of a startup, there is no time for conflict because there are too many decisions that have to be made very quickly. I guess there’s no real solution besides maybe trying to understand other people’s priorities. But this is not true for small, fast-moving startups.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 8 Tips for anger management Posted to: Office Politics | Parenting | Self-management January 8th, 2010 Del.icio.us But I am working on anger management. Use solutions-based language in tense conversations. I am both those people.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to take intelligent risks Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Finding a career | Quitting | Self-management September 29th, 2010 Del.icio.us The best risk takers are in fields like entrepreneurship, hedge fund management, and excavation.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tweet This Facebook StumbleUpon Email this post to a friend Related Posts Twentysomething: The safe route is overrated Sometimes finding a job is a mixed blessing 5 overlooked rules of management TIME Magazine mentioned my blog. My family and many other families have been able to find a solution to this type of situation.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

When the farmer lived alone, it was so hard for the babies to stay alive that it was a sort of Malthusian society where, by the end of the winter, he was always down to a manageable population of five or six. The legislation to ban equine slaughter was passed in 2006, and the last horse kill (in Illinois) was closed in 2007.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I am writing a book about crisis media management in the digital age and woudl love to include your twitter comment. Even their – usually unsuccessful – search for an answer, a solution, or for healing becomes part of it." May I/ If yes please let me know how you like me to attribute you. Their story is their identity.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I am "hidden" far away from from management as possible (in a different building from the rest of my department.) I myself do not have Asperger's syndrome but as I am in my mid-30s with zero talent/interest in management, I find becoming unemployable due to insufficient social skill a frightening prospect too.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Your blog is a career-management dream-come-true. I used to think it's a time management thing, but it's actually more complicated than that. I say this assuming that you understand that a blog is a networking tool. Lie #4: Social media is no place for business. But, we already do. I want to be good at both.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He is not sure how he wants to manage it. By the way, loved your video conference on Managing Up. I have one to add: Allow yourself to work in the fashion and at the time that is most productive to you – not how people who manage office workers demand you work. Find balance: Calm/exciting, chatter/quiet, people/no people.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook A lot of people ask me how I manage to keep a job when I have Asperger syndrome. on September 30, 2009 at 9:01 pm | permalink | Reply > A lot of people ask me how I manage to keep a job when I > have Asperger syndrome. God you have everything! When do you get abducted by space aliens?

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 15, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Underrated career skill: Asking questions Posted to: Managing Up | Networking December 15th, 2009 Del.icio.us One of the women I manage gets to me because she doesn't ask questions very often or asks really poorly thought out ones.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How I improved my morning routine Posted to: Time management September 13th, 2010 Del.icio.us The house manager arrived at the house shortly after I got the kids to school and recommended some wine as a way to cope. Is this your first time here?

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Find a business analogy that takes the feeling of failure out of it if that's a problem (here's one: a therapist is like a mentor for your marriage). Its awesome what you managed and what you have mounted. Think of it as a kind of prophylactic. Be sensible about this. At first: CONGRATULATIONS about that big success.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

I've used it to help me manage my subconscious mind's attitudes and beliefs, and I've made a lot of progress with it. I like the way you managed the 'bottleneck" by simply taking positive action and converting the porch into an office. It doesn't matter where you put the sofa. You can still sit on it.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

For example, I think maybe I went overboard in my comment, in a discussion about whether I am managing my personal brand well. Posted by Marshall Wayne on December 29, 2009 at 4:34 am | permalink | Reply Five years ago, my wife announced she wanted to separate and I got canned from my job managing software testers, all within a few weeks.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car Posted to: Diversity | Self-management December 1st, 2009 Del.icio.us I have ADD and I can manage without a keeper or government intervention. We have time management issues.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

Even if I manage to do that, I will not feel like I have accomplished something important today. Make a plan to manage your success 3 great time management strategies I'm failing at Comments (148) Leave a Comment Not soporiferous at all (A very interesting word btw; 'sopor' meaning sleep and 'ferous' meaning savage.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 3, 2010

' Readers that follow you for ages may understand that it was passing or fluid, but an employer or distant mentor could look at that and completely misjudge your stance or capabilities. And I love your solution in your #4 point. So I wonder, does anyone have other solutions? It is managed quite easily. Lack of hate.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

So even if he had managed to keep you, he would always know down deep inside that his parents chose control over support. So unless you feel you and the farmer (or whoever manages to steal your heart) can deal with that, it would be a big leap. Not just because he doesn't have you, although that is unfortunate for him.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

But then, when I told one of my mentors that I’m not good at sales, he said, “Of course you’re good at sales. I have seen many organizations with highly successful sales organizations based on team collaboration (internally among the staff) and consultative solution discovery (externally with customers). He’s right. Posted by Jim C.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Posted to: Self-management | Time management October 19th, 2010 Del.icio.us So, to be happy, decide what is possible: The perfect solution doesn't have to be immaculate. As for being wrong in front of others…how can one manage that? Here's how to beat it. The one from Ada, Ohio.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

This is true of how to network , how to parent , how to manage people and also how to write about your life. How you manage personal relationships. This is true of how to network, how to parent, how to manage people and also how to write about your life." And this, in the end, is probably why we don’t kill ourselves.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

" But how does one manage being both creative and mitigating risk to a reasonable level? If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Can you comprehend how much a part of the solution you could become? It’s thrilling to do. Even if you’re wrong sometimes." The one from Ada, Ohio.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog You can be happier by reading this post Posted to: Learn to take advice | Self-management January 7th, 2010 Del.icio.us Middle managers in business report higher levels of stress than more senior managers despite having lower work loads.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I was completely incapable of managing the college application process on my own. There is research from Yehuda Baruch , professor of management at University of East Anglia that swearing at work helps build teamwork. After all, I couldn't even manage to have a wedding for my wedding. And I will refrain from using fuck.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 30, 2010

Tweet This Facebook StumbleUpon Email this post to a friend Related Posts You probably overestimate your emotional intelligence 5 overlooked rules of management Coachology: Finally, the men place high value on personal life. i think the needle-point thing is a creative solution. In a marketing management training program.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Posted by Ask a Manager on September 7, 2010 at 3:39 pm | permalink | Reply Yes. Posted by Ask a Manager on September 7, 2010 at 6:16 pm | permalink | I think this is actually decent advice. I started in London in the slump of the eighties but still managed fine with very little money or opportunity. " It's implied.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

His book, Create Your Own Economy , is about how the information flow of the Internet allows us to manage our careers differently than before. I wish that I could offer a solution, but alas, I'm just a searcher like yourself. You’ve talked about things like breaking To Do lists down to make them more manageable.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog We're nearing the end of email, maybe Posted to: Networking | Self-management April 23rd, 2010 Del.icio.us Google know how to make large quantities of data manageable and they know how to write good software. At first I didn’t believe it.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Posted to: Parenting | Self-management December 4th, 2009 Del.icio.us But there's no magic solution. While this may have been a pressure release for him, I eventually thought it was just sort of sadistic: that he could manage continuing a relationship by making it clear that the relationship would end. Virtual hugs.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

" I try to do my best work no matter where I am, but on more than one occasion I have been struck by how much better my best can be when I have a good and inspiring manager/boss/professor. "Let me know if you need anything" is the sign of a good manager. "Hope and Change" are not solutions.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As a result, I'm content to remain a behind-the-scenes figure or a mentor's mentor ( [link] ). You have a house-manager to handle the details of running your home, and a nanny to handle the details of minding your kids, so hiring an editor to handle the details of your professional writing might not be a bad idea.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

And, people who manage their careers well end up paying more attention to a company’s reputation for caring about people and community than what any given job description is. Today, we define ourselves by the integrity with which we manage our career. Jessica Thompson Manager, U.S. We are currently looking into this matter.

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